Day In Pictures - December 24, 2012

A U.S. army woman with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) blows a lit candle on Christmas eve at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

A man looks outside from the upper floor of a retail store as mannequins are displayed below, in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Pope Benedict XVI lights a candle at his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, after the unveiling of the Nativity scene, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI has lit a Christmas peace candle set on the windowsill of his private studio overlooking square. Pilgrims, tourists and Romans gathered below in St. Peter's Square for the inauguration Monday evening of a Nativity scene and cheered when the flame was lit. Later, he will appear in St. Peter's Basilica to lead Christmas Eve Mass. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

An armed police officer stands guard inside a church during a security sweep ahead of Christmas eve services at the main cathedral in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. Since the Bali bombings in 2002, the world's largest Muslim country has been battling terrorists who recently operate in small groups and have targeted security forces and local "infidels" instead of Westerners. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Adelaide Gupton, 4, takes a peek around the angels lining up for a Christmas pageant Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, as part of the Christmas Eve toddler service at Christ Episcopal Church in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)

Approximately 150 Surfing Santas, elves, snowmen and other Christmas characters showed up at George Trosset's Surfing Santa event Christmas in the Sand in Cocoa Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. The event raised money for Grind for Life, which helps people with cancer. The ocean was filled with Surfing Santas:, men, women, boys and girls. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Malcolm Denemark)

Musicians play brass instruments for the 35th Annual Dallas Merry Tubachristmas Concert at Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. According to organizers of the event, over 200 tubas and euphoniums gathered to play Christmas carols. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

December 24, 2012 - Sisters Allison Sumner (second from right), 5, and Selah Sumner (right), 7, embrace as they watch their dad inflate a hot air balloon in the parking lot of Tera Oaks Elementary in Collierville. In the background their little brother Noah Sumner (left), 2, and Presley Matthews talk with Richard Day dresses as Santa before he lifted on in the balloon. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)

December 24, 2012 - Carlton Sumner, Jr. works to inflate a hot air balloon in the parking lot on Tera Oaks Elementary in Collierville. Sumner tethered the balloon to the ground and gave more than three dozen children free rides with Santa in the balloon. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)